2009 NMC Summer Conference Proceedings

First in 2007 and then in 2008, the NMC Conference Proceedings were published. Each chapter is the work of an invited author or authors, selected by his or her peers at the NMC Summer Conference and asked to contribute a paper related to the topic of the session presented there.

The volume you now hold is the third in the series. The papers in the 2009 NMC Summer Conference Proceedings represent the conference in microcosm: among these pages you will find an expert’s guide to planning an educational build in Second Life; a case study describing an educational gaming initiative; informative introductions to current topics such as the use of geospatial web tools and the infinite canvas and web comics for storytelling, approaches to participatory online teaching for museums, practices for media development, gaming in liberal education, innovative uses of video to create a virtual audience for performance practice; and discussions of issues of teaching new media literacy and dealing with fear of web and social technologies. Just like the Summer Conference itself, the Proceedings showcases the talent, the brilliance, and the innovative spirit of the members and colleagues of the New Media Consortium.

In this year’s proceedings, we take publishing to a new place by creating the papers first here on the web, where all the media is included, and the content extensively hyperlinked. Using new tools such as WordPress and Anthologize, we are able to also generate versions of the paper in PDF and ePub formats- directly from the web versions.

Each paper projects a taste of the energy and excitement of the conference. Some of the papers are very closely tied to the presentations from which they were derived. Others, less so. A common thread unites them all — the continuing power of new media, in all of its forms, to transform teaching and learning.